The Lifecycle of a Program
Explore the lifecycle of computer programs by understanding how source code in high-level languages is processed differently in compiled and interpreted languages; learn key phases including compilation, linking, and execution to grasp how programs run on a CPU.
As we have learned, a computer’s CPU can only understand and execute machine code instructions. However, programmers seldom write machine code. Instead, they usually make use of high-level languages like C++ and Python to write code, which is then translated to machine code by the CPU. Hence, a program written in a high-level language undergoes various phases throughout its lifecycle. However, the translation steps vary for ...